I'm trying to use some bootstrap features like the Icon glyphs in the Yii CHtml class, here is my code:
<?php
echo CHtml::submitButton('<i class="icon-user"></i> Login',
array(
'class' => 'btn btn-large pull-right'
));
?>
But it kind of doesn't "recognize" the <i>
tag and just renders the tag out like the image below:
does anyone knows how to workaround it (without typing the HTML tags itself).
CHtml::submitButton
produces an <input type="submit">
that cannot accept additional HTML as its content. However, you can do things to taste with CHtml::tag
:
echo CHtml::tag('button',
array('class' => 'btn btn-large pull-right'),
'<i class="icon-user"></i> Login');
This will produce a <button>
tag that can take arbitrary HTML as its content.
Update: As frostyterrier points out in the comments, there's a built-in method CHtml::htmlButton
that allows you to do this even more easily:
echo CHtml::htmlButton('<i class="icon-user"></i> Login',
array('class' => 'btn btn-large pull-right'));